 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pagina’s
...service : it is a hard saying, and they cannot bear it. What saith the Apostle, 1 Cor. 9, 26, 21 ? So fight I, not as one that beateth the air : But I beat down my body, for so the word signifies, and bring it into subjection. But is there any such hardship... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pagina’s
...is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a cprruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I,...beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 596 pagina’s
...that which is opposite to it, the true wisdom, in the viiith chapter. St. Paul said, 1 Cor. ix. 27. 'I run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that...beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - 1810 - 594 pagina’s
...that which is opposite to it, the true wisdom, in the viiith chapter. St. Paul said, 1 Cor. ix. 27. 'I run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that...beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 536 pagina’s
...language of an eminent ancient christian, who, when he had full assurance of salvation, said : " I nin, not as uncertainly : So fight I, not as one that beateth the air : But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that, by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 824 pagina’s
...it for a corruptible crown but we for an " incorruptible. I therefore so run, hot as uncer" tainly : so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : " but I keep under my body and bring it into subjec" tion, &c." These and similar te*ls do not speak of 'a little exertion.' Prom whatever... | |
 | John Wesley - 1811 - 468 pagina’s
...insecure, and even his salvation in danger, without this constant self-denial. " So run I, (says he), not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air." By which he plainly teaches us, that he who does not thus run, who does not thus deny himself daily,... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1812 - 572 pagina’s
...temperance in the Chriftian race, he immediately fubjoins, " I therefore fb " run, not as uncertainly; fo fight I, not as " one that beateth the air; but I keep under " my body, and bring it into fubjection, left " that by any means, when I have preached " to others, I myfelf fhould be... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pagina’s
...their's is but a fading, transitory crown; >' • • r « V. . < •r*. :*•••..*•• TEXT. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly: so fight I, not as one that beateth the air. 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that, by any 'means, when 1 have preached... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 pagina’s
...he, "do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I,...beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that, by any means, when I have preached toothers, I myself should be a cast-away."... | |
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I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 
